Adobe announced new artificial intelligence features for Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign at its MAX event in Miami. The firm is also expanding its Firefly suite with a new creative agent and releasing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) to allow third-party chatbots to access Adobe tools.
Design and prototyping tools
The Firefly application is entering the prototyping space with a private beta tool called Builder. This feature lets users create designs to demonstrate concepts. A new function generates graphs that match brand guidelines, while an image editor allows edits to specific parts of a picture without altering other objects.
Video assembly and proactive assistance
Adobe is introducing an AI video tool within Firefly that assembles footage from clips, images and sound effects. The company is making its agent proactive and always active so it can gather more context about ongoing work. Users can now perform quick tasks such as removing backgrounds or generating video thumbnails.
Specific feature updates
Photoshop gains a new relighting feature and sliders for prompt-based generative styles. Premiere receives a colour grading system for professionals and an object removal tool for video. Lightroom adds a method to correct blinking eyes and a blemish removal function.
Third-party models and integrations
The platform already supports models from Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Kling and ByteDance. Its recent acquisition, Topaz Labs, releases two image models: Wonder 4 for upscaling and denoising, and ImageHDR to convert standard images to high dynamic range.
Adobe previously offered integrations with ChatGPT and Claude to access product functions. The new local MCP exposes further features of Creative Cloud apps to users.
What Adobe says
We are still figuring out where and when and how to draw the line. What we’re putting out there is a number of endpoints and capabilities across Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere. We’re just going to sort-of see how people use it, what they’re trying to do, and keep showing more. We don’t have any need or desire to sort of limit what the MCP endpoint can expose. What we really want to do is to support that creative workflow, how you choose to do it.
Deepa Subramaniam, vice president at Adobe, told TechCrunch the company relies on user feedback to determine which capabilities to expose.
Industry context
Last month, Dylan Field, co-founder of rival Figma, stated in India that the Model Context Protocol is not a perfect standard and benefits frontier labs more.
